Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-06-30
THE CLOSING HOURS.
Michigan Lawmakers Will Rest for
Two Years.
Notes of the Cios sing Hours.

Michigan Lawmakers Will Rest for
Two Years.
Notes of the Clo sing Hours.
Poth houses met at O'Clock on the
morning of June IS, en- / a joint committee
was appointed to wait upon the governor
and inform him that the legislature was
ready TO a llourn. The committee report
| Q that the governor ha no further mes
sages each house announce TO the other
its rea ne to close business and pre-
else at $50 the legislature for 1886 : ad
| journed. The members shook han Is all
around, the goodbyes were said and grips
In hand they Gepartei. The speaker of
| the house ana the presto ent of the senate
remained until Wednesd ay to sign
bills as they were engrossed by the Clerks,
AMI each Gay there was formal II II call
At IL O'Clock wednesday noon the 10Th the
presiding officers Of The respective houses
announced the ad iournment sine die
A number of important measures some
OF them bad an uncalled Tor measures
| die in the senate. Among them were the
| bill to restrict the number of convicts that
may be employed on any particular work,
blow at the Ietroit house of correction.
| The bill to appropriate $50, 900 for machine
ry to start work in jackson prison on
state account was not reached The bill
| to regulate fishing in the waters of the
| great lakes failed. The Detroit asse sors
| bill was rejected. The bill to re luire cor
! poratons To sell lands held by them for
| ten years failed also. The inter tate com
| merce act had twenty of its twenty-three
| SEE tions e minated, and thus was made
| comparatively reasonable. When ii was
returned to the house Mr.. Rogers felt dis
| gusted and himself moved to have the bill
laid on the table The two and a half cents
a mile railroad bill, though il pa sed the
| house, was not reached in the senate, the
senate railroad committee being much OPP
| posed to the idea of lower fares. The Os
coda and Au Sable consolidation bill died
on the table.
The new liquor tax bill has an amend
ment which provides for the summary
closing of saloons and wholesale liquor es
adjustments which have not paid the tax.
The police of Detroit are given full urls
di ton to en- 'orce the regulat ons of the
| new liquor law in 81 e to Sn hips Of Spring
wells, Greenfie d, Hamtsamck and Crosse
Pointe. A number of mo nted police will
be o iuipped TO patrol the highways and
by-ways of those townships and hold sa-
oon-keepers to a strict observance of the
law.
The house passed a concurrent resolu-
ton authori ing the state military board,
If in accord with their judgement, to send
to Philadelphia next September to partici-
pate in the grand parade OF the military
and naval forces OF the United States and
of the var.o states and territories, such
companies. regiments or parts of regi
ments a might be deemed proper The
expense of the contemplated exhibition
was TO be ia en- from the military fund
and that there might be "A sufficient
amount avail able the legislature author
lied the state military board t. change
the arrangement for the annual encamp-
ment or TO entirely suspend it for the
present year The resolution failed in
the senate, and so the Michigan soldiers
will have no opportunity to compete with
the soldiers of other states at the great
constitutional celebration.
The appropriation Of $500 to enable the
governor and supreme court judges to
visit Philadelphia next September and at
tend the celebration of the adoption of the
constitution passed the house but died in
the senate A report was made against it.
The senate has passed tue bill for indie
terminate sentences. This permits judges
to entence a person convicted of felony
without prescribing the term. The prison
official may then release the offender on
parole for good behavior, and may fix the
term of sentence: but this cannot be for "A
greater or less time than that prescribed
by law
The house has been considering the
amendments made to the liquor tax bill
by the senate. The amendment fixing the
tax at $500 was non concurred in. The
amendment allowing the bondsmen of sa
on-keepers to be taken from the town
ship at large was defeated. The amend
ment allowing saloons to open
at q O'Clock in the morning, instead of at
O'Clock, was concurred in; the one clos
ing saloons at IL o'clock Gt night, instead
of 10 o'clo k, was lost Mr.. La Du, the
great champion of prohibition legislation
and leader IN formulating tenn erance
legislation, criticised this action. He
thought 1t not nationally accounted for,
and would have much preferred to fix the
closing hour at II rather than to open it
at g. AT the early morning hours labor
ers, he said. might imbibe a glass or two
aud ecome untitled for work, losing their
wages for the day and squandering the
earnings of the day before The IL clock
limitat on was a small evil in COMPARISON.
The summary arrest provision was non
concurred in.
The house committee on ways and means
reporte the university appropriation bill
with reduction of sl5t0J from the form
in which it pas ed the sen te. viz, at $685.
o u for the building AMI equipment Of a
scientific laboratory. A motion to make
the amount $4,000 was lost and the bill
passed, and now goe; to the senate for
concurrence.
The bill to allow the commitment and
detention of female children to the House
of the Good shepherd in Detroit passed
the senate, but failed of passage in the
house--yeas. 80; nays, - 1t was recon
sidered and referred to the committee on
the judiciary.
The governor has appointed as commits
sioners under the Gettysburg bill, George
r. Briggs of Grand Rapids, George W.
Crawford of Big Rapids and Peter Lennon
of Genesee.
The house defeated the bill making it
obligatory upon the board of control of
Northern Michigan asylum to employ a
homeopathic physician "a medical super
intendent.
The senate committe on appropriations
and finante has made a report on the
house bill to equalize bounties to volun-
teers in the late war of the rebellion. They
examine the laws and reports upon the
subject and reach the conclusion that the
state does not owe the increa ed bounties
proposed as matter of equity or justice.
They examine the question whether the
state owes the bounties inferentially and
morally, and answer it in the negative
Then they come to the third and last ques-
ton: Ought the state to generously and
philan thropically give this money! Their
answer to this is in part as follows: Evi
IDENTIFY the legislatures of all these twenty
years have believed that they must be
ust before they could be generous But |